Skip to main content

A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

By
  Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
Post a Comment

CM asks Home Dept. disbursement of seized assets among investors of ponzy schemes

Image
By

  • Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directs appointment of special executive magistrate to speed-up process of liquidation of seized assets of fruadsters

By Dheeraj Fartode
Asking Home Department to speed-up process of disbursement of seized properties of fraudsters among the gullible investors, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday reviewed law and order situation. On sidelines of winter session, Chief Minister first asked for details about ponzy schemes and their status and . When he learnt about settlement in many cases, Fadnavis asked then directed Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Amitabh Ranjan and Director General of Police Sanjeev Dayal to co-ordinate with Revenue officials and ensure immediate disbursement of assets in cases which are now settled.

He asked Home Department to pursue appointment of Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) who is an officer of rank of Additional District Magistrate, and provide immediate relief to thousands of investors who are waiting for return of their basic investment. Chief Minister was addressing a special meeting of senior State police officials. The meeting was held at Ramgiri on Monday evening and besides ACS (Home) and DGP, Director General of Police, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ABC) Praveen Dixit, Home Secretary, Commissioners from Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur Police Commissionerates were present. Secretary to Chief Minister, Pravin Darade was also present.

DGP briefed Chief Minister about status of cases under Maharashtra Protection Of Interest Of Depositors (MPID) Act, in which courts have given directions to return the money of investors from seized properties of fraudsters. DGP further stated that since SEM are burdened with many charges the process gets delayed. Chief Minister then immediately directed the Special Executive Magistrate be appointed at the earliest and a police officer should liaison with them and they are to look after only the MPIDA case and provide relief to the gullible investors.

On the issue of Naxal menace in Maharashtra, the CM applauded Maharashtra Police’s performance saying the cops are doing a commendable job as compared to in neighbouring states. The meeting also reviewed installation of CCTV cameras in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur and directed the officials to fasten-up the process.

Suspend government officials on immediate effect

DGP (ACB) Pravin Dixit urged Chief Minister to immediately suspend the Government official after he or she is caught red-handed in bribe cases. Senior officials of Government Department tend to shield their juniors officials after ACB nabs them which is quite frustrating, he further said. The CM it is learnt to have issued order to comply with ACB's suggestion and further if it is not done the concerned Head of Department would be pulled-up.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IGP Prasanna : The man who stopped Obama’s convoy

By
IGP Mallikarjuna Prasanna By Dheeraj Fartode  Published on Feb/17/2019 NOT many are aware of an episode during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2010. The world’s most powerful man was made to wait for 11 minutes in his car while an Indian cop took on American officials for their unwarranted interference in the US President’s security. KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna, Special Inspector General of Police of Nagpur Range, still continues to work with the same pride, wearing his patriotism on the sleeve. “Had they (Americans) deployed their personnel for area security, then the message would have been Indians are unable to protect VIPs in their nation,” recounted Prasanna on the episode that is one of the highlights of his distinguished career of a skillful investigator. The story of the IPS officer of 2000 batch is worth a film. In fact, a movie (Nagarjun-starrer ‘Officer’) has already been made by Ram Gopal Verma last year. His real life script als...
9 comments
Read more

DCP Sunil Kolhe gets IPS cadre

By
DCP (crime) Sunil Kolhe By Dheeraj Fartode About 28 State Police Service (SPS) officers were granted  Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre on Monday. At Nagpur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Crime) Sunil Kolhe is among these officers. With their promotion, Maharashtra Government will fill-up the existing vacancies of cadre posts across the State. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, approved the promotion and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), issued the notification of 28 state police officers into IPS cadre.  Maharashtra Government had earlier empanelled the 28 officers for promotion of SPS officers into IPS and criteria was they should have served for atleast eight years as Superintendent of Police (SP) or Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). The list includes names of officers belonging to Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) batches between 1988 and 1995, who were promoted to the IPS cadre. The officers are S V Ja...
Post a Comment
Read more

How a mom won fight for justice after 15 years

By
Pintu Shirke  THE love of a mother can move mountains. But for Vijaya Dilipsingh Shirke the task ahead was much tougher. She was taking on the mountain of a corrupt system, enduring threats to life, and fighting the might of muscle power. Never did she flinch even once, and after a longdrawn legal battle of 15 years ensured that the killers of her son did not go unpunished. After all, it was a resolute mother’s promise to her  slain son. On October 31, 2017 the mother was full of anxiety waiting for a word about the outcome of hearing in the Apex Court. The decision would have a bearing on the Shirkes’ years of struggle to get justice for their slain son Swapnil alias Pintu Shirke. When the learned Apex Court judges threw out challenge of main culprits, including prime plotter Vijay Mate, and upheld life sentence handed out by the High Court, the 15-yearlong fight of Vijaya Shirke had finally reached its logical conclusion. “The promise made to Swapnil when...
2 comments
Read more